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Post by SE13 on May 1, 2009 5:20:08 GMT
We open the month with a single part question. However a couple of bonus points are waving at you all, one for spotting something slightly out of place, and another for working out why the main location was chosen today.  *Click image for a larger version* |
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Post by Oracle on May 1, 2009 6:39:42 GMT
Where the road locomotive (traction engine) is I have no idea but looks like a prsereved railway.
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Post by metman on May 1, 2009 7:25:01 GMT
Somewhere around Heathrow? Terminal 4?
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2009 11:32:25 GMT
Lewisham?
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Post by Dstock7080 on May 1, 2009 15:30:02 GMT
Waterloo? walkway to W&C Line.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2009 19:53:49 GMT
Becton Park or cyprus dlr station
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Post by rincew1nd on May 1, 2009 22:00:11 GMT
Well there's a Fowler ploughing engine with a Tar Boiler in the background. Possibly the one belonging to the L&DTEC. Keighley & Worth Valley Railway? |
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Post by astock5000 on May 1, 2009 22:07:00 GMT
The main photo is either Beckton Park or Cyprus.
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Post by ruislip on May 2, 2009 0:54:32 GMT
Bermondsey
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Post by Chris M on May 2, 2009 7:09:19 GMT
The main photograph is Cyprus, well done luke and astock5000 - but why was it chosen for the 1st of May? Cyprus - stairs from westbound. [Chris M]  (click for a larger version) The background is a Fowler ploughing engine, specifically 1913 Fowler BB class Ploughing Engine no. 13482. I'm impressed you got that Rincew1nd. It isn't at a preserved railway though - so where it is?  (click for a larger version) |
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Post by upfast on May 2, 2009 7:20:17 GMT
Camberley?
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Post by yerkes on May 2, 2009 7:30:00 GMT
Hollycombe?
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2009 8:34:58 GMT
Is it that Cyprus became a British colony on 1st May 1925?  |
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Post by Chris M on May 2, 2009 11:11:39 GMT
Is it that Cyprus became a British colony on 1st May 1925? You're thinking on the right lines, but that's not the event that I had in mind. |
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Post by rincew1nd on May 2, 2009 16:38:40 GMT
The background is a Fowler ploughing engine, specifically 1913 Fowler BB class Ploughing Engine no. 13482. I'm impressed you got that Rincew1nd. It isn't at a preserved railway though - so where it is? Behold, myself on the footplate of City of York No3# Not a preserved railway you say? Must be at some kind of museum then or similar, Beamish, Ironbridge? #Wallis & Steevens 10ton Advance Roller No7941 of 1927 if you're interested, taken August Bank holiday 2006 on its first public outing for 20years. I have the dubious pleasure of looking after it when it's raining, and no, it hasn't got a canopy yet :-@ |
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Post by Chris M on May 2, 2009 18:53:51 GMT
It was indeed taken at the Blists Hill museum in Ironbridge, taken on the 30th of April 2006. The only reason I was able to say more about it than "traction engine" is because I Googled "NO797". Unfortunately trying the same logic to find out more about a lake appearing in a background photo later this month has led me to spend most of the day reading about motorway service stations for reasons I cannot remember  |
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Post by rincew1nd on May 3, 2009 19:24:11 GMT
Gah, in my quest to locate it I Googled the engine number, searched the Traction Engine register and all sorts, but never thought of the registration number! Grr  |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 9:28:55 GMT
Cyprus joined the EU on 1 May 2004.
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Post by SE13 on May 5, 2009 9:35:19 GMT
Cyprus joined the EU on 1 May 2004. Spot on, that's exactly what we were looking for. |
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Post by rincew1nd on May 6, 2009 22:44:46 GMT
It was indeed taken at the Blists Hill museum in Ironbridge, taken on the 30th of April 2006. At the risk of going on about traction engines on a tube forum, my sources tell me that in March last year the engine was in bits at Statfold Barn near Tamworth. |
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